Desperate to maintain Britain’s relevance, successive governments have pledged to ramp up military spending – a promise that British capitalism cannot afford. The Iran war is now exposing that Britain has no independent military role to play on the world stage.

Today, we are witnessing the relative decline of US imperialism. This crucial subject is outlined in John Peterson’s fantastic book ‘Colossus: The Rise and Decline of US Imperialism’. Here, we reproduce extracts from the book alongside a review from a reader.

While the liars, hypocrites and thieves in Westminster cynically hope for the downfall of the Iranian regime for their own aims, we look at the real history of British imperialism in Iran. Starmer and co. are no friends of Iranian “freedom”: hands off Iran!